Re: [orca-list] intro and observations on Archlinux/Mate

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

No, not if you've configured things normally, mate will be fine with a gig of ram.
I think you may be better off with either thunder-bird nightly, may be cqalled daily from the AUR, or rolling 
back to TB 
24 if you do not mind the sync issues that for me are show stoppers, i.e. msg list is not in sync with actual 
message 
shown, so you must double check each message before deleting it.
I have run mate, XFCE and now mostly use fluxbox on Arch64bit on a 1.65GHz atom netbook. 
I do have larger swap, but never use more than a couple hundred MB, and usually, even with mate which uses 
the most memory 
of the three GUIs I have only use a few hundred KB of swap. 
I do not do a lot of multitasking, and did adjust swapiness and cache pressure a bit, but this should not be 
necesary. 
Of course more is always merrier when it comes to memory and processor power, but you are not pushing it at 
all with what 
you have.
PJust for the record I also ran arch CLI-only for a bit beforre installing my first GUI on it, XFCE. Then I 
installed 
mate, and finally because of the limited hardware decided that my best setup was ultra-lightweight with 
fluxbox and some 
nice customizations. 
I run a pure alsa system, no pulse, and use startx, no DM.
This is a bit ot FOR here. 
I'd suggest you join the talkingarch IRC channel to discuss details of your configuration and perhaps get or 
share tips 
and tricks. 
Regards, and welcome to the list,
--
B.H.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:49:17PM -0700, Chris Watson wrote:
> Howdy folks.
> My name is Chris, and am new to this list or any other for that matter.
>
> Old DOS junky, and have been fooling with arch cli for a year and a half now. 
> Great wikis. 
>
> Well, finally took the gui plunge, and settled on Mate. System is 3 ghz,SMP 
> with1 gig of RAM.
>
> When running Thunderbird, the speech freezes, and have tried repeated 
> (orca-super-s) and alt-f2, but no joy. If I move to quickly, that seems to 
> cause it. Probably need more memory? Have 1.5 g swap.
> Was amazed at the fast bootup time.I' starting out in console and then issuing 
> startx to bring up Mate.
>
> Should I give up on this box and go for a more robust box? Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Chris 
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